Archive for the ‘General Marketing’ Category
In my previous post I spoke about how the role of a [tag]Search Engine Marketer[/tag] has changed and in this post I want to touch upon an obsession that far too many businesses still have when it comes to implementing search marketing campaigns.
Some 40 years ago marketing guru – Theodore Levitt coined the term [tag]Marketing Myopia[/tag] to describe an unnecessarily common affliction among business people. At the heart of the issue is focus: marketing should focus not on products but on customers. So we’re now in 2007 and when it comes to [tag]Search Engine Marketing & Optimisation[/tag], their marketing eyesight has not got much better.
I decided to come up with the term “Search Marketing Myopia” to describe when businesses focus on rankings as opposed to customer or web visitor goals.
Read on
There’s a marketing strategy that’s slowly spreading that the best way to get rich is to by charging nothing. It’s gaining such momentum that it’s the topic of Chris “I invented the [tag]Long Tail[/tag]’ Anderson’s next book. And if the influence of [tag]Chris Anderson[/tag]‘s previous work is anything to go on; a lot of companies will be looking into “[tag]Free[/tag]” as a business model.
there’s a few things marketers could learn from the chap in red – via flickr
Google has given away products like Analytics away for free to encourage PPC advertising. Novelists are giving away digital versions of their books to help sell paper copies & even Prince gave away a whole album on the cover of the Mail on Sunday to sell more gig tickets.
But what does this mean for online publishers and search engine marketers? And why should we give away for free what we might have charged cash for in the past.
Read on
There are lots of interesting starter guides, books and podcasts out there to help anyone starting out in internet marketing. They’ve helped me learn, but I thought it would be interesting to share my thoughts as I learn the ropes. Here, I explain the differences between push and pull advertising, which illustrate the differences between traditional and online marketing.
Over the years, I have developed an absolute passion for advertising and marketing techniques, but as an individual I am very aware of when I am being marketed to, and normally I do not like it. I like to think I am in control of my own purchasing decisions, and am not being influenced by anyone else but me; I believe many consumers feel this way too. We have gone through decades of over-advertising which I believe contributed to the success of the Internet and the increased amounts of time spent online by consumers. Here is why I would like to talk a bit more about Push and Pull advertising. Push advertising operates in traditional media such as billboards, magazines, cinema and television (except for red button advertising) and consists of the advertiser pushing a message onto you in order to influence you next time you go to the supermarket or high street. It could be done by sticking a silly song in your head or adding comedy value to your brand, but in any case, push advertising is becoming less effective:
Read on
We’ve recently been joined at Site Visibility by Eloi Casali a recent graduate from Brighton University in Communications & Digital Media. We were really impressed with his dissertation about online advertising so we’ve asked him to summarise some of his findings in a series of blog posts, this being the first – Kelvin
Advertising has traditionally been a very expensive/ lucrative business (depending on your perspective) with huge amounts of money being spent with the intention of making the average target consumer aware of a brand.
via Flickr
At the foundation of the pricing of offline advertising is the amount of people that will see the ad (Cost Per Thousand), which is very speculative: Who knows exactly how many people are watching BBC2 at the moment? No-one. Who knows exactly how many people looked at that Nike poster? And more so, who knows how many people bought a Nike product because of that poster?
Read on
As marketing Cock-ups go the fairly recent launch of the [tag]London Olympics[/tag] logo certainly makes a good dent in the most embarrassing list. The logo was widely condemned, was criticised in online & off solidly for the best part of a fortnight.
The Beeb – Obvivously not familar with Goatse via flickr
It’s easy to talk with hindsight about how they should have seen the furore in advance, but the frequency of mistakes like this shows just how easy it is to get it wrong.
But are there lessons internet marketers can learn from the slip ups like this.
Read on